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The Special Investigation Team probing the Chinmayanand case has told the father of the UP law student, who accused the BJP leader of rape, to not speak to the media, sources close to the survivor’s family have told The Quint.
The 23-year-old law student who accused Swami Chinmayanand of rape has been in police custody for over 24 hours now.
This comes on the heels of the survivor’s father’s statement to The Indian Express where he said that his daughter had done ‘no wrong’.
The families of the three boys who have been jailed along with the law student on the charges of extortion are also being threatened. Sources close to the family of one of the boys told The Quint that three cars full of cops and investigating officers landed up at their house late on Wednesday night.
Chinmayanand’s lawyers had filed a case of extortion against unidentified persons. They had alleged that a WhatsApp message demanding Rs 5 crore was received on the mobile phone of the BJP leader. The message, they alleged, threatened to make some video clips viral if the amount was not paid. The cops arrested three youth and the survivor.
The survivor’s family alleged on 25 September that the SIT “forcibly dragged her” out of their home after a brief interrogation. She was later taken for a medical examination and later produced before the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vineet Kumar.
On Tuesday, the survivor's father told the media that the SIT attempted to arrest his daughter when she was on her way to the anticipatory bail hearing.
Chinmayanand, meanwhile, is under “observation” in the Cardiology Ward of SGPGI, Lucknow. He had complained of ‘ill-health’.
The BJP leader was arrested on 20 September in the sexual assault case but has been booked under Section 376 C of the IPC – sexual intercourse by a person in authority, not amounting to rape. However, ever since charges have been framed against him, he has been under observation in a Lucknow hospital.
The survivor on the other hand, has already spent a day in jail. Her father has been gagged, he has been asked not to speak to the media.
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Published: 26 Sep 2019,01:29 PM IST